Example sentences of "[verb] it across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 2 | The action is set in a south London council flat of hideous squalor over the Easter weekend of 1990 , and it begins with a young man effing and blinding in a crescendo of impotent , inarticulate fury , before picking up a television and hurling it across the room . |
| 3 | He pictured himself smashing both fists down in the middle of the kitchen table , or taking a china jug off the shelf and hurling it across the room . |
| 4 | The actual work can be a bit fiddly — sometimes an arrangement just wo n't go right and I have to restrain myself from hurling it across the room . |
| 5 | You want to try and flick that , see if I can knock that little , one of those brass pigs , flick it and see if I knock it across the table , I 'll take my own finger off , the pig 'll hardly move . |
| 6 | And you build it across the van like that . |
| 7 | A curved arm scythes through the air and the body follows its lead , spiralling to the ground where deft work ( and powerful abdominal and back muscles ) produce a smooth synthesis of movement , driving it across the floor and up into the next sequence . |
| 8 | ‘ This heavy-duty polythene should do the trick if I can wedge it across the gaps . ’ |
| 9 | The girl got a good grip on the hatch , and pulled it away , tossing it across the square like a dustbin lid . |
| 10 | She carried a long pole which was draped with hanks of haigus wool , and she dropped it across the rails of the staging , then turned back into the gloom of the shop again . |
| 11 | And it 's how you put that point across , if you put it across and if the body language you use when you put it across and do you know what makes the biggest different the biggest difference about how you put it across the most important factor about how you put it across and what you 're trying to do ? |
| 12 | The gang manhandled the 18-foot caravan through the gap in the fence and began pushing it across the field towards the road . |
| 13 | He directed them to the Fish , took over the chaise from them before they entered the village , drove it across the meadow to the edge of Burtness Wood , calling , on his way , to the potboy to bring some oats . |
| 14 | Elinor did not pick up the pan and hurl it across the room . |
| 15 | They have two lenses , one light to face an approaching train and the other to reflect it across the rails . |
| 16 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 17 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 18 | Haavikko handed it across the table . |
| 19 | I uncrease the paper and open it across the table as if to read . |
| 20 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 21 | Helping her out of the dress , she threw it across the bed . |
| 22 | She snatched the food down , threw it across the river shore , but on second thoughts rescued the precious meat and tied it to the slim horse that was now her steed . |
| 23 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
| 24 | The second blasted away most of the back of his head , spraying it across the driver 's seat and the side windows . |
| 25 | Using a knife , I carefully opened it across the top and slipped the letter out . |
| 26 | Quails ( 16:13 ) : twice a year the common quail 's migration route takes it across the region where the Israelites were at this time . |
| 27 | So when the great lady detective drew a hair from her head and stuck it across the lock on the front door of Sir Vivien 's motor car , Constable Quince said nothing . |
| 28 | a ) Disconnect the ribber carriage from the connecting arm and pass it across the ribber bed ( all the ribber stitches drop off ) . |
| 29 | Ahn snaps it across the man 's wrist — breaking the bone , I think . |
| 30 | She did n't in any way splash it across the newspapers because that ruined her sister 's chances . |